Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 22:47:36 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: des@ofug.org Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc remote Message-ID: <20030505.224736.54349996.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpk7d43h7n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <200305052137.h45LbhQV012306@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzpk7d43h7n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> writes:
: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > Log:
: > Add traditional BSD names (sio[0-3]) to the finger-friendly com[1-4]
: > entries so that you can do things like 'tip sio1' without having
: > to remember the DOS equivalent.
:
: NetBSD calls them tty[a-z]; we've always called them cuaa[0-9]+; Linux
: calls the /dev/cua[0-9]+; Solaris calls them /dev/cua/[a-z]. Who's to
: say what's traditional?
NetBSD is a little more traditional. linux and solaris don't count in
the 'Traditional' argument, but SunOS 4.x and 3.x do (where they were
called /dev/cua* and /dev/tty*, where * was replaced by 'a' or 'b' for
builtin serial ports and something else for not builtin). So sio's
use of /dev/tty* and /dev/cua* is fairly BSD traditional.
However, what's in /etc/remote can be way different than the device
names. Solaris doesn't have /etc/remote, for example, and Linux's is
so weird the last time I looked that I have no clue what goes on.
Warner
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